The First Principle in
The Science of Getting Rich
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce
tangible riches from the Formless Substance. The stuff from which all things
are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance
produces the form.
Original Substance moves according to its
thoughts; every form and process you see in nature is the visible expression of
a thought in Original Substance. As the Formless Stuff thinks of a form, it
takes that form; as it thinks of a motion, it makes that motion. That is the
way all things were created. We live in a thought world, which is part of a
thought universe. The thought of a moving universe extended throughout Formless
Substance, and the Thinking Stuff moving according to that thought, took the
form of systems of planets, and maintains that form. Thinking Substance takes
the form of its thought, and moves according to the thought. Holding the idea
of a circling system of suns and worlds, it takes the form of these bodies, and
moves them as it thinks. Thinking the form of a slow-growing oak tree, it moves
accordingly, and produces the tree, though centuries may be required to do the
work. In creating, the Formless seems to move according to the lines of motion
it has established; the thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant
formation of a full-grown tree, but it does start in motion the forces which will
produce the tree, along established lines of growth.
Every thought of form, held in thinking
Substance, causes the creation of the form, but always, or at least generally,
along lines of growth and action already established.
The thought of a house of a certain
construction, if it were impressed upon Formless Substance, might not cause the
instant formation, of the house; but it would cause the turning of creative
energies already working in trade and commerce into such channels as to result
in the speedy building of the house. And if there were no existing channels
through which the creative energy could work, then the house would be formed
directly from primal substance, without waiting for the slow processes of the
organic and inorganic world.
No thought of form can be impressed upon
Original Substance without causing the creation of the form.
Man is a thinking center, and can originate
thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his
thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.
And so far man has confined his efforts wholly
to the work of his hands; he has applied manual labor to the world of forms,
seeking to change or modify those already existing. He has never thought of
trying to cause the creation of new forms by impressing his thoughts upon
Formless Substance.
When man has a thought-form, he takes material
from the forms of nature, and makes an image of the form which is in his mind.
He has, so far, made little or no effort to co-operate with Formless
Intelligence; to work "with the Father." He has not dreamed that he
can "do what he seeth the Father doing." Man reshapes and modifies
existing forms by manual labor; he has given no attention to the question
whether he may not produce things from Formless Substance by communicating his
thoughts to it. We propose to prove that he may do so; to prove that any man or
woman may do so, and to show how. As our first step, we must lay down three
fundamental propositions.
First, we assert that there is one original
formless stuff, or substance, from which all things are made. All the seemingly
many elements are but different presentations of one element; all the many
forms found in organic and inorganic nature are but different shapes, made from
the same stuff. And this stuff is thinking stuff; a thought held in it produces
the form of the thought. Thought, in thinking substance, produces shapes. Man
is a thinking center, capable of original thought; if man can communicate his
thought to original thinking substance, he can cause the creation, or
formation, of the thing he thinks about. To summarize this--
There is a thinking stuff from which all
things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and
fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces the
thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by
impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks
about to be created.
It may be asked if I can prove these
statements; and without going into details, I answer that I can do so, both by
logic and experience.
Reasoning back from the phenomena of form and
thought, I come to one original thinking substance; and reasoning forward from
this thinking substance, I come to man's power to cause the formation of the
thing he thinks about.
And by experiment, I find the reasoning true;
and this is my strongest proof.
If one man who reads this book gets rich by
doing what it tells him to do, that is evidence in support of my claim; but if
every man who does what it tells him to do gets rich, that is positive proof
until some one goes through the process and fails. The theory is true until the
process fails; and this process will not fail, for every man who does exactly
what this book tells him to do will get rich.
I have said that men get rich by doing things
in a Certain Way; and in order to do so, men must become able to think in a
certain way.
A man's way of doing things is the direct
result of the way he thinks about things.
To do things in a way you want to do them, you
will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think; this is
the first step toward getting rich.
To think what you want to think is to think
TRUTH, regardless of appearances.
Every man has the natural and inherent power
to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than
it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think
according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is
laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man
is called upon to perform.
There is no labor from which most people
shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the
hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to
appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a
corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be
prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH.
To look upon the appearance of disease will
produce the form of disease in your own mind, and ultimately in your body,
unless you hold the thought of the truth, which is that there is no disease; it
is only an appearance, and the reality is health.
To look upon the appearances of poverty will
produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that
there is no poverty; there is only abundance.
To think health when surrounded by the
appearances of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of
poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND.
He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants.
This power can only be acquired by getting
hold of the basic fact which is behind all appearances; and that fact is that
there is one Thinking Substance, from which and by which all things are made.
Then we must grasp the truth that every
thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that man can so impress his
thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become visible things.
When we realize this, we lose all doubt and
fear, for we know that we can create what we want to create; we can get what we
want to have, and can become what we want to be. As a first step toward getting
rich, you must believe the three fundamental statements given previously in
this chapter; and in order to emphasize them. I repeat them here:--
There is a thinking stuff from which all
things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills
the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces the
thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and, by
impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks
about to be created.
You must lay aside all other concepts of the
universe than this monistic one; and you must dwell upon this until it is fixed
in your mind, and has become your habitual thought. Read these creed statements
over and over again; fix every word upon your memory, and meditate upon them
until you firmly believe what they say. If a doubt comes to you, cast it aside
as a sin. Do not listen to arguments against this idea; do not go to churches
or lectures where a contrary concept of things is taught or preached. Do not
read magazines or books which teach a different idea; if you get mixed up in
your faith, all your efforts will be in vain.
Do not ask why these things are true, nor
speculate as to how they can be true; simply take them on trust.
The science of getting rich begins with the
absolute acceptance of this faith.
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